Well everybody, I'm very excited this year as I had
the chance to actually do a custom and present it to
the person it was going to! This was no ordinary
person, we all know him from his short lived roll as a
Sith Lord apprentice, to the long tongued Toad in the
X-Men and to his current roll of Snake Eyes in the
G.I.JOE movie hitting in August! That's right
everyone, the person I'm talking about is RAY PARK!!!
When I heard
he was going to be attending our Sci-Fi and Comic Expo
here in Calgary again, I decided then and there that
this was a once in a life time chance to do a custom
for a movie star and be able to actually present it to
him. So after about 15 hours of work on him I finally
completed my Snake Eyes (Movie Version) for Ray Park.
Even though he has been done for months I just could
no wait to give it to Ray and it was done yesterday,
04/25/09!
This
presentation was a special moment in my life that I
will never forget! I had asked Ray if anyone has ever
done something like this for him and his reply
was " No, no fan has done something like this for me
before." We chatted a bit as to how long it took, what
I did to make it and so on but, probably the icing on
the cake for me was he said, " This was going right
next to his Snake Eyes helmet on his desk at home." (I
hope he can send me a picture of that, it would be
very cool!). All I can say about Ray, is that this guy
is a top notch guy and cares about every single fan
that comes in front of him, he goes that little extra
every time just to make sure his fans leave with a
smile on there face and a moment they will never
forget!
SO Ray, I
went that little extra to try and send you on your way
with a smile on your face and a moment that I will
never forget!
SNAKE EYES - MOVIE VERSION
This is Ray
Park holding his custom of Snake Eyes and myself. Soon
after this I had to go sit down. One of those moments
you think your going to pass out but, I know CPR, oops
just wait, that would be hard to administer to myself!
Ha Ha Ha!
This is the
final version of Snake Eyes in display case, what is
in this photo is what I presented to Ray. Instead of
leaving the G.I.JOE logo all silver from the movie, I
changed it a little to have some of the comic logo in
it as well. So the "STAR" was changed to the good 'ol
Red, White and Blue!
SNAKE EYES - WIP'S
Snake Eyes
here was made from a DC Direct Nova figure. The head
is a DCD Red Arrow head. The hands came from a ML FO Punisher and the
feet came from a ML Bullseye. The gun, holster and
ammo pouches came from a DCUC Terminator figure. The
chest knife came from a DCD terminator figure and the
ninja sword is from an unknown source. The head (to an
exstent), visor, chest, abs, pants,
wrist - forearm bands and boot designs were all sculpted.
SNAKE EYES - BEFORE FINAL PRESENTATION
This is the
final piece before it went into the display case. I
tried to have this custom come with all the bells and
whistles. It was so hard to find any good pictures on
the net that actually showed a full body shot! Notice
the removable visor. I added on a side pouch after the
WIP's were taken as I knew I forgot something.
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